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Oil portrait of Moritz Thomsen by Roman Fekonja, 1895
Moritz Thomsen (1850-1932), a former Dutch sea captain, arrived in Seattle in 1896 and co-founded the Centennial Mill Company (now Krusteaz brand). A tireless industrialist, Thomsen at one time was president of fourteen corporations, including the Centennial Mill Company, and the Denny-Renton Clay & Coal Company. Little is known about the artist, Roman Fekonja (1868-1910), except he was born in…
ID Number:1965.3758.4
Date:1895
Oil portrait of Marie Thomsen by Roman Fekonja, 1895
This portrait of Marie Thomsen, born Marie Nissen, was painted when she was 44 years old. She arrived in Seattle with her husband, Moritz Thomsen (1850-1932), in 1896. Moritz co-founded the Centennial Mill Company (now Krusteaz brand), and he was, at one time, president of fourteen corporations, including the Centennial Mill Company, and the Denny-Renton Clay & Coal Company. Little…
ID Number:1965.3758.5
Date:1895
Burroughs Adding Machine, ca. 1909
Paul Levinson purchased this adding machine from a Seattle bank about 1915 to use in his dry goods business. When he sold his business and began work with Arthur Herschman at Transpacific Merchandise Company, he brought the machine along, continuing to use it until he passed away in 1965.
ID Number:1966.3863
Date:Circa 1909
Wooden baby cradle made by Julius Christison, 1893
Julius Christison came from Denmark to Seattle in 1887. He worked as a cabinetmaker in one of Seattle's earliest furniture factories, the Hall & Paulson Furniture Company (established 1874). He was later employed as a carpenter by the Pacific Manufacturing Company. By 1899 he had adapted to modern mechanization sufficiently to work as a a "machine hand" at Rolfs and…
ID Number:1966.3878.49
Date:1893
Glass bottle, "Pure Cider Vinegar" from C.M. Bogle Packing Co., 1923
Chelsey M. Bogle, originally from Mississippi, came west for the Gold Rush and settled in Seattle in the early 1900s where he established the C.M. Bogle Packing Co. He was also president of the Seattle Can Company in 1917.
ID Number:1966.3879.5
Date:1923
Straight razor from Vincent Amato's barber shop, ca. 1912
Italian American immigrant Vincent Amato came to Seattle in 1899. He owned a barbershop at 1311 East Jefferson in Seattle from 1912-1948.
ID Number:1966.3908.4
Date:Circa 1912
Package of Old Homestead Brand fruit jar rings, ca. 1919-1945
These fruit jar rings were made by the Matchett-Macklem Company, an early Seattle grocery distributor, ca. 1919-1945.
ID Number:1966.3910.10
Date:Circa 1919-1945
Elgin pocket watch, ca. mid-late 1800s
This watch belonged to Watson Allen who was born in New Jersey in 1842 and served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He settled in Seattle sometime after the war and was elected the King County representative to the first Washington State legislature in 1889. During his life in Seattle, Allen accomplished the following: promoted the development of…
ID Number:1966.3928.1
Date:Circa 1850-1890
Container for Powdered Pumice Stone from Bartell Drug Stores, Seattle, ca. 1900
Bartell Drugs, established in 1890, was one of the oldest and long-standing family-owned stores in Seattle until it was sold to Rite Aid in 2020. George H. Bartell Sr. (1868–1956) purchased the Lake Washington Pharmacy at 2711 South Jackson Street in Seattle's Central District in 1890, and that was the beginning of a long-lived and beloved Seattle business.
ID Number:1966.3957.6b
Date:Circa 1900
City of Seattle medallion honoring aerospace pioneers, 1967
This medallion was commissioned by Mayor James d'Orma Braman, who served in the office from 1964-1969, and the City Council of Seattle on the occasion of the Boeing Company's 50th Anniversary in 1966. The artist was Seattle sculptor Ray Jensen (1929-2019).
ID Number:1966.3968.2
Date:1967